Error installing node-gyp on ubuntu

Question

npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/weak/-/weak-0.2.2.tgz
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/bindings

> weak@0.2.2 install node_modules/weak
> node-gyp rebuild

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/gyp_main.py", line 18, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'script_main'
gyp ERR! configure error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/configure.js:337:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"

gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.15
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.12.1
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! weak@0.2.2 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the weak@0.2.2 install script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the weak package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls weak
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.0-15-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "weak@0.2.2"
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.15
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.23
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! not ok code 0

I don't have a direct dependency on weak or node-gyp but I guess it is required by my other dependencies (express,phantom,ejs,aws-sdk,moment). Anyone faced such an issue and was able to fix?

Answer 1

On Fedora 20, reinstalling gyp fixed this for me.

sudo yum reinstall gyp

Answer 2

Here are the steps to install node-gyp successfully on a Ubuntu system:

1.First of all, install the "make" build tool in Ubuntu with the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install build-essential software-properties-common -y;

2. Then you need to install the a proper C/C++ compiler toolchain. We will be installing GCC here with the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y && \
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install gcc-snapshot -y && \
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6 -y && \
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6 60 --slave 
/usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6 && \
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 -y && \
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.8 60 --slave 
/usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.8;

3. Install python 2.7 version. (Note: Python 3 is not supported by node-gyp).

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install python2.7 python-pip

4. And finally install, node-gyp npm package:

npm install -g node-gyp

Additional but not important: If you have any atom keyboard-layout related issue with node-gyp then install the following one more package:

sudo apt-get install libxkbfile-dev

Thats all! It should be working fine now.

Answer 3

If your python version isn't the source of error, check if you have "gyp" installed. This is conflicting with the gyp version in node-gyp.

apt-get remove gyp

https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/363#issuecomment-32234646

Answer 4

This command sudo apt-get install build-essential helped in my case.

Answer 5

on Ubuntu 18, I had to install required build libs to get it working

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Answer 6

I faced this issue on Ubuntu 16.04 while trying to install the wikimedia extension mathoid.

I tried everything that was suggested and nothing worked until I did:

sudo apt-get install librsvg2-2 librsvg2-dev